Monthly marathon

01 November 1996
Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Recent reports

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment Great Snipe Gallinago media At least 11 up to 1st October, including three on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 20th September. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Dumbarton (Strathclyde), 22nd-30th September. Crested Lark Galerida cristata Landguard (Suffolk), 2nd a...
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News and comment

01 November 1996
Comments News and comment When the latest issue of your favourite magazine arrives through the letter box, do you open it and promptly shake it over the litter bin? All those inserts are presumably disposed of immediately in countless households, at least judging by the comment...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996
Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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News and comment

01 May 1966
Comments News and comment Retirement of E . M. Nicholson from the Nature Conservancy.--By far the most significant development in the field of conservation in Britain in the years since the last war has been the establishment of the Nature Conservancy and its subsequent growth int...
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Letters

01 May 1966
Comments Letters The identification of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Sirs,--The letter from Dr. C. Suffern on the subject of the Hampshire Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti (Brit. Birds, 56: 516-518) contains so many mis-statements that a detailed exposure would be tedious bot...
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Reviews

01 May 1966
Comments Reviews Project Mat: the conservation and management of temperate marshes, bogs and other wetlands. Volume i, Proceedings of the Mar Conference, compiled by the IWRB/MAR Bureau under Dr. L. Hoffmann; IUCN Publications new series, no. 3, 1964; 475 pages; F.25 or &...
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Notes

01 May 1966
Comments Notes Surface-feeding and up-ending by Goosander.--In December 1965 and early January 1966, at Chew Valley Lake, Somerset, one and sometimes two female Goosanders Mergus merganser regularly fed close to the shore in shallow water near the mouth of a small strea...
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